ExxonMobil Foundation makes a second $1 million contribution to the PMI
Photo: C. Brandão, USAID/Angola
Esso Exploration Angola, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil Foundation, announced a $1 million contribution to the USAID-led President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) at a ceremony that included Vice Minister of Health, Dr. José Van-Duném; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Africa at the U.S. State Department Carol Thompson; U.S. Ambassador Cynthia Efird; and James R. Riley, the Exxon Mobil Corporation's Manager for Government Relations and Public Affairs Business Support, on January 30th, 2007. The $1 million contribution brings ExxonMobil's total contribution to the President's Malaria Initiative to $2 million since 2005.
The PMI is a collaboration between the Government of Angola and the Government of the United States to reduce the morbidity and mortality related to malaria by 50 percent by 2010. In 2006, the PMI supported the spraying of over 100,000 homes in Cunene and Huíla provinces; and facilitated the distribution of over 800,000 long-lasing insecticide treated bed nets in Cabinda, Lunda Norte, Lunda Sul, Malange, Moxico, Uíge and Zaíre provinces, as part of the Government of Angola's Viva a Vida Com Saúde campaign.
In 2007, the President's Malaria Initiative will distribute 450,000 long-lasting nets in provinces not covered during the Viva a Vida Com Saúde campaign, protect approximately 750,000 homes in Huíla, Cunene and Namibe, and support the expanded distribution of drugs to protect pregnant women from malaria and to treat malaria victims.
Fighting malaria has been a priority of the ExxonMobil Foundation since the year 2000. Through its Africa Health Initiative, the Foundation has provided over $30 million to multiple international, regional and national anti-malaria efforts, including the Roll Back Malaria Campaign launched by the UN agencies and the World Bank; the Harvard Malaria Initiative; and Medicines for Malaria Ventures. Through Esso Angola, the ExxonMobil Foundation has contributed $6 million in the last two years alone to anti-malaria initiatives in Angola. This is exclusive of the contributions that have been made by Block 15, for which Esso Angola is the operating partner.
In accepting the $1 million check on behalf of the President's Malaria Initiative, Deputy Assistant Secretary Thompson lauded the ExxonMobil and Esso Angola's leadership among corporations active in supporting health care programs.
